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Animal Stereotypes: Dean acting like a dog has him barking at the mailman, scratching behind his ear, getting the urge to sniff peoples' butts, sticking his head out of a car window, and playing fetch.

Animal Talk: Dean figures out he can talk to all animals after a Jerkass pigeon poops on the Impala and taunts him. As explained by the Colonel: "Animals have a universal language, like Esperanto. Except this one actually caught on."

Animal Wrongs Group: Downplayed in that the couple from SNART aren't really malicious; while Dean disagrees with them, he trusts them enough to leave the Colonel with them.

Breather Episode: It's so much of one that it makes a point to recap almost every single previous SupernaturalBreather Episode before it, just to remind the audience that, yes, sometimes this show lets you stop crying.

Previously On: There are scenes from past episodes, some as early as season 2, though none of them have anything to do with this episode besides the fact that they were also breather episodes.

Red Herring: The first crime scene has the logo of an animal rights group, though the group wasn't involved in any way.

Shout-Out: This is the second consecutive episode to contain a Game of Thrones reference, in this case the tableau of stuffed animal GoT characters Max Alexander is working on in the teaser.

When Sam tells him that the spell that allows him to understand dog language also makes him exhibit dog behavior, Dean says "Ruh-roh."

When Dean learns that Chef Leo has cancer, it prompts him to ask if that's what made him decide to break bad.

Strange Minds Think Alike: When Dean sees the people at the vegan bakery wearing sunglasses indoors, he remarks that only blind people and douchebags do that. When they explain why they're wearing sunglasses, the woman complains that it makes them look like douchebags.

The Un-Reveal: At the end of the episode, the Colonel tells Dean that dogs aren't actually Man's Best Friend. The spell wears off immediately before he reveals what their true purpose is.

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